Chapter 120: Chapter 120: Journey Home

It took just over three weeks for the T.S.S. Mary Anning to reach New Terra. The research ship was one of the newest in the post-war fleet. Everything was state of the art, from its two dozen sensor arrays that could tell practically everything about a planet from orbit to every kind of science lab imaginable. Timothy was one of 30 experts on the mission. He was also the youngest by far and the only one without a Ph.D. Yet everyone wanted to have lunch or a cup of coffee with him and get his insights on the planet. From the types of animals that were once there, the chemical makeup of the soil, the social dynamics of the common man and the hierarchy of the government. He tried to be polite to all, but he couldn't tell them much of what they wanted to know. After all, he was only a ten-year-old farm boy when he left. By the end of the first week most left Timothy alone.